Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with network security issues, companies in Minneapolis Minnesota have access to high-level troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class support for key security and recovery solutions like AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and late at night, when IT staff are likely to be slower to become aware of a break-in and are least able to mount a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can make inside a victim's network, the more time it will require to recover core IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to take the urgent first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to find out how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network protection plus preparation for recovering critical data and systems after an attack requires a continual program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can support your business at any level in your efforts to secure your IT system, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security program. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any company ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist security personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can configure scanning software, define and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include continual remote server monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and recover information compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct a network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
At-home employees typically use their own computing devices and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user training, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran group of at-home workforce support experts can help you to plan, implement and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical information assets in networks that include an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your IT network, Progent's patch management services allow your IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform that features computer learning software and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults including ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware breach. For more details, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response consulting.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, concurrent, programmable assessment of your network so you can find, rank, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert so-called tripwires like bogus files or credentials to find out whether your environment is being probed across key attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to allow you to take action promptly with your incident response workflows before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's threat analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any overall network security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your organization's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are properly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can implement ongoing automatic penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, skipped patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of modern strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Assessment Consultants.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of vital files/folders, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used for this added means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register several validation devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class support in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can help your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Read more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Expertise
• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consultants
• Symantec Help

Find out more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and models, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in key categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Minneapolis Minnesota and you're trying to find computer security help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Twin Cities Metro Area.